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Org-mode as well, for those who can get into emacs. Especially as a programmer, the code blocks are awesome.

Want a quick analysis of some data in the same file? Toss it into a table, write a code block, run the code block, get a new table as output. I can export it to a variety of formats without much trouble in order to share with others.

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Editor war commence!

Joking, but as someone that has mostly used vim, I have the feeling that emacs is trying to do everything within emacs while vim are supposed to be used in tandem with other unix tools.

Definitely a factor. There are still a lot of emacs use-cases which call out to or depend on unix tools, but yes. It's more common to try and "live" in emacs than in vim, whereas vim is more of a component within a larger experience.

I saw this new Org mode port for NeoVim[1].

I wouldn't expect this to be anywhere near feature complete but for an old vim hand like me it's interesting.

I'm a big fan of VimWiki personally but I'm in awe of some of the Org-mode demos I've seen.

1. https://github.com/kristijanhusak/orgmode.nvim

It definitely is more akin to an operating system than just an editor. You can even VIM within Emacs with evil mode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil

The nice thing about org is how seamless it is to do all this. I do think that vim-style modal editing is the best way to go, but Emacs is to me a much better text manipulation platform than Vim is, and you can still get the Vim experience with evil mode.

I like Kakoune for this reason. I just wish it had a few more niceties.

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